The Inner Game®
Pioneering Peak Leadership Performance For Over 50 Years
Over 50 Years
The New Era
Global Team
High Performance
Happy 50th!
The New Era
Global Team
High Performance
Announcement
NEW BOOK RELEASE:
The Inner Game of Tennis
(50th Anniversary Edition)
The Classic Guide
to Peak Performance
by W. Timothy Gallwey,
Bill Gates (Introduction),
Pete Carroll (Foreword)
HARDCOVER & eBOOK EDITIONS:
With millions of copies sold, Tim Gallwey’s groundbreaking Inner Game books have influenced the lives of many.
“Winning is overcoming obstacles to reach a goal, but the value in winning is only as great as the value of the goal reached.”
~ Timothy Gallwey
Accelerating your learning and achievements
The Inner Game is about Performance, Learning and Enjoyment. The most common barriers to reaching optimal potential are the ways we all interfere with ourselves; self-doubt, fear of failure, judgmental thinking and confusion of goals. We tend to be our own worst enemies. Fearless focus is the key to an outstanding success.
Engage
Your Team
Creating a positive learning environment is the first step to increase self-motivation and sense of team collaboration.
Make Better Decisions
When we learn how to use our “awareness mode,” we are increasing our chances to choose the best options in our personal or professional life.
We Are
Different
We have in our teams different generations with diverse approaches. Diversity and inclusion must be considered to achieve a high-performance team.
The Inner Game
is a Game for Everyone
This ambitious vision inspires us to forge strong partnerships and pioneer groundbreaking solutions that drive the widespread adoption of The Inner Game’s transformative concepts.
Regardless of your role or position, the principles of The Inner Game can be applied and prove to be highly beneficial. Whether you are an employee, a business owner, a team leader, an educator, a mentor, or someone who nurtures and guides others, these principles are universally applicable.
These are important areas that should be taken into account: basic education, well-being and health, the environment care, needy communities, sustainable entrepreneurship, inclusion and diversity.
How Inner Game can help your organization
In the last decades we had a great opportunity to work with many different kinds of business and cultures.
Peak
Performance
Inner Game method challenges you to re-examine everything that you do including your own fundamental motivations for doing things. It helps you define the landscape of what we term as a high performing interdependent organization
Creating the Enjoyment Mode
Through strong emphasis on enjoyment and motivation, we bring a different approach where peak performance is reached.
Learning From Experiences
Leaders must learn to create an environment where learning from experience is the principal focus, as apposed to creating tasks, checking results and giving feedback. This is the most powerful tool for the new leadership era.
Testimonials
“Even as the outer game has changed, the inner game has remained the same. Gallwey had one particular insight that seems crazy the first time you hear it: The secret to winning any game lies in not trying too hard. The Inner Game is surprisingly profound. Timothy Gallwey’s insights apply to tennis but also many other parts of life.”
~ Bill Gates
"Since his first book, "The Inner Game of Tennis," I have been fascinated and personally benefited by the incredible empowerment of Tim Gallwey’s insights into his analysis of Self 1 and Self 2. This work-related study is a liberating analogy and inspires us to relax and trust our true Self."
"Carroll says he might drop “The Inner Game” in a player’s locker. Other times he passes along a chapter or a passage. He long ago stopped using the actual language of the book in practice. 'I don’t talk about it with the team,' Carroll says. We don’t tell them about it, we just do it. We incorporate it into everything we do.”
“I understood that "The Inner Game" was not just a concept applicable to sport players, but a powerful tool for natural learning.”
"These days, many people talk of accelerating learning in organizations but few have actually done it. The words of a master like Tim Gallwey are timely indeed."
Inner Game Events
UPCOMING TIGI EVENTS
The Inner Game Train The Trainer
Coming Soon - First Quarter of 2025
The Inner Game For Coaches
The Inner Game History
- Watch the evolution of The Inner Game unfold
In the mid-1970s, Tim Gallwey gained valuable insights into experiential learning during one of his tennis classes in California. He realized that individuals could enhance their learning experience through a more hands-off approach. In his 1974 book, “The Inner Game of Tennis”, he initially introduced this concept. The concepts of The Inner Game quickly made their way into the corporate world. What we know today as modern coaching has emerged. Global companies like Apple, AT&T, Coca-Cola, IBM, Rolls-Royce and many others have embraced this method as a valuable tool in their decision-making processes and leadership development.
The Inner Game:
The New Era
It has been half a century since it all began.
The past was filled with remarkable achievements and captivating narratives. The present continues to be a source of inspiration. Our unwavering focus is shaping the future of success.
The New Era embodies a spirit of fearlessness.
It involves the challenging of ideas, connecting with individuals and communities who can gain value from these enduring principles. As we nurture this evolution, we enter the New Era of The Inner Game.
Inner Game Programs
The Inner Game Methodology
This program is designed to expose participants to the essential core of The Inner Game Method. The Inner Game’s first major learning step is that within every human being, there are two selves.
Self 1 is the conscious mind or “teller.” It is the part of us that gives instructions, makes judgments, and tries to control our actions.
Self 2 is the unconscious mind or the doer. It is the part of us that performs actions without overthinking or interfering with the natural flow of movement.
The most common barriers to reaching optimal potential are the ways we all interfere with ourselves: self-doubt, fear of failure, judgmental thinking and unclear goals. We tend to be our own worst enemies.
Each attendee of this workshop will have a great opportunity to understand how to play and win your own inner game. This program is delivered live and online, in different languages. Check our calendar for upcoming programs.
The Inner Game of Performance
How can we rewire ourselves and the organizations we work for that are hardwired for stability, control and predictability, into cultures that value not only performance but also authentic human growth, learning and evolution?
This workshop demonstrates an approach that boosts enjoyment and achievement. It encourages you to reconsider your motivations and principles of success. It helps to define the landscape of what we call a high-performing integrated organization.
The Inner Game of Performance is a program for professionals and individuals that are challenged to grow themselves and be aware of their possibilities. Leaders, young talents, entrepreneurs, sportspeople and executives can take advantage of Inner Game tools to help them deal with day-to-day issues.
The Inner Game of Selling
A salesperson’s goal is to convince customers to buy. Inner Game prepares salespeople to achieve sales success at the source of this process. That source corresponds to the “inner” thought process of a customer’s ears. The Inner Game training provides sellers with the ability to influence this “inner” dialog that determines success for all sales. Agility is essential for sales. Customers are always introducing the unexpected. The program encourages salespeople learn to “think on their feet” and to handle unexpected customer answers successfully.
We need to ensure that salesmen practice and apply “buying without trying.” We develop salespeople how to use consumer decision-performance as leverage. Selling becomes effortless and even enjoyable.
Buying is the desired outcome of selling, consequently the goal of selling is to buy. Traditional sales training is “off-purpose.” It focuses on enhancing a salesperson’s selling performance. The Inner Game Selling program runs “on purpose.” We focus on helping salespeople improve their customers’ purchasing performance
The Inner Game Train The Trainer
If you work in coaching, mentoring, human resources development, education, consultancy, leadership or any sports area, maybe you have an interest in becoming one of our Inner Game facilitators. We started our global expansion in 2016 with the main mission of bringing Inner Game concepts and tools to a large number of people.
The Inner Game Institute is inviting you to attend this intensive training with the main goal of preparing you to deliver one of our most popular programs, The Inner Game Methodology Workshop. If you are interested in bringing this magical program to your region, city, country or specific market niche, this is your chance.
Some Inner Game Clients
Keynotes
Regarded by many as a pioneer of coaching in corporate America, for over thirty years Tim Gallwey has inspired and educated executives and high performance teams through seminars, workshops and inspiring keynote addresses.
The Inner Game of Work (Keynote Address)
In this new economy, where the combination of individual and collective knowledge is our most valuable asset, discovering ways to access and develop our ability to learn is paramount. However, all people bring with them habits of self-interference that get in the way of the use of their potential to perform and to learn. In this lecture Gallwey re-defines work itself in such a way that participants see that learning and enjoyment are as integral to successful work as high standards of performance. Topics often include:
Manager as Coach (Keynote Address)
- The power of re-defining work
- Sustaining a state of focus at work
- Mobility – the ability to move towards desired outcomes in a fulfilling and timely manner
- Thinking like a CEO
- Maximizing learning from one’s own experience
- Coaching others to maximum performance
“Learning how to learn may be the most critical skill in an age of change.” Coaching is a capability that facilitates the learning, growth and the best performance out of individuals and teams. Understanding how to coach is now an indispensable tool for the leaders and managers of corporations committed to the development of their people. Gallwey is recognized as one of the pioneers and most influential thinkers in the emerging field of executive coaching.
Global Team
Tim Gallwey
Founder, CEO
Renato Ricci
Global Managing Director
Jeffrey Lipsius
Sales Marketing Director
Barbara Ann Quinlan
Chief Operations Officer
Sean Brawley
